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The last decades have witnessed a renewed interest in near-synonymy. In particular, recent distributional corpus-based approaches used for semantic analysis hav
The Power of Smell in American Literature
Language: en
Pages: 0
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The book examines the literary representation of smell throughout American literature. In her innovative close readings, the author combines insights from cultu
The American Language
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Scent and Subversion
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Perfume on the Page in Nineteenth-Century France
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Despite long-standing assertions that languages, including French and English, cannot sufficiently communicate the experience of smell, much of France’s ninet